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References relate to the Vanderveer families, early Dutch settlements, and the revolutionary war that support the Friends of the Jacobus Vanderveer House mission statement.

Organizations:


Click Here to Learn MoreCrossroads of the American Revolution

Click Here to Learn MoreNew Jersey Cultural Trust

Click Here to Learn MoreGeneral Knox Museum, Thomaston, Maine

Click Here to Learn MoreLamb's Artillery Re-Enactors , New Jersey

Click Here to Learn MoreMott's Artillery Re-Enactors , Princeton, New Jersey

Click Here to Learn MoreThe Continental Line Re-Enactors , Kentucky

Click Here to Learn MoreUnited States Military Academy, West Point, New York

Click Here to Learn MoreHistorical Society of the Somerset Hills , Bernards Twp, New Jersey

Click Here to Learn MoreHeritage Trail Association , Bridgewater, New Jersey

Click Here to Learn MoreNY400 Celebrating New Amsterdam's 400th Birthday

Click Here to Learn MoreHolland Society of New York

 

External Links

Click Here to Learn MoreVan Der Veer Genealogy (Not just the Vanderveers from Somerset Cty)

Click Here to Learn MoreFamous Van Der Veers

Click Here to Learn MoreFacebook Group for the Vanderveer House and Relatives and Fans

Click Here to Learn MoreJacob Vanderveer's of Bath, North Carolina

Click Here to Learn MoreEast Olde Towne Village and a transplanted Pluckemin Vanderveer House

 

PresentationsClick Here to Learn More

Click Here to DownloadBedminster Township Committee Presentation - 19, 2007

Click Here to DownloadHistoric Timeline of Bedminster, New Jersey

 

Seidel, John Lewis
The Archaeology of the American Revolution: A Reappraisal and Case Study at the Continental Artillery Cantonment of 1778--1779, Pluckemin, NJ
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 1987. - Two volume series is availabe for viewing at the Vanderveer Knox Museum

 

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About the Vanderveer/Knox House & Museum
& the Pluckemin Artillery Cantonment

For over two centuries, the Jacobus Vanderveer House has been at the center of Bedminster Township’s rich and colorful history. The house is the last surviving building in Bedminster associated with the Vanderveer's, a family prominent in Bedminster Township history from its earliest settlement through the mid 19th century.

The Vanderveer house served as headquarters for General Henry Knox during the winter of 1778-79, when the Continental Army artillery was located in the village of Pluckemin during the Revolutionary War's Second Middlebrook Encampment. The house is the only known building still standing that was associated with the Pluckemin Artillery Cantonment. The artillery park and military academy is considered to be the first installation in America to train officers in engineering and artillery and predates the United States Military Academy at West Point (est.1802) by twenty four years.

The Vanderveer family house was later enlarged with two additions in the nineteenth century, remodeled in the twentieth century, and subsequently abandoned. The Township of Bedminster purchased the home and the surrounding area as part of River Road Park in 1989. The home has been restored by The Friends of the Jacobus Vanderveer House, a non-profit group of inspired volunteers dedicated to use the home as a museum and educational center.

Vanderveer/Knox Museum and the Friend of the Jacobus Vanderveer House in Bedminster/Pluckemin New Jersey - Home to early Dutch colonial farming, The Vanderveer family, and the Pluckemin Artillery Encampment - America's First Artillery Training Facility - the precursor to the West Point Military Academy
The Friends of the Jacobus Vanderveer House
P.O. Box 723, Bedminster, New Jersey 07921-0723
908 - 212 - 7000 ext. 611
www.jvanderveerhouse.com info@jvanderveerhouse.com
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The Friends of the Jacobus Vanderveer House received an operating support grant from the New Jersey Historical Commission, division of the Department of State.

 

 

 

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